Singapore Restaurants

Why are restaurants like Ash & Elm that are situated within hotels rarely ever crowded? A few thoughts come to mind – the hotel’s guests serve as a captive audience and the restaurant doesn’t really have a ‘landlord’ to pay rent to, since usually the hotel owns the restaurant as well. […]

Chef Chan’s Restaurant was founded by chef Chan Chen Hei, one of Singapore’s top Cantonese chefs famous for dishes such as crispy roast chicken and supreme shark’s fin with crab roe. Chef Chan moved from Hong Kong to Singapore when he was 28, and he left Singapore at age 57, […]

Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant is a 20-year old super atas (‘atas’ means high class in Singlish) Chinese restaurant located at The Marriott Hotel at Tang Plaza. We were a bit sceptical of this place due to the mixed reviews that it has been garnering as of late, however we decided to give it a try […]

Geylang Claypot Rice is a specialist claypot rice (colloquially referred to as sar poh fan, or in Chinese 砂煲饭 shā bāo fàn) and zi char restaurant in the middle of Geylang. We were a bit burned out with the endless number of cafes and western restaurants that we had been going to of […]

Saveur Purvis Street is a famous French restaurant that is part of the Saveur group with outlets at Far East Plaza, The Cathay and ION Orchard. What sets Saveur apart from the competition is its incredible quality of food at an affordable price. You can get their à la carte […]

Twins Korean Fried Chicken is one of the newest Korean fried chicken joints to open in Singapore’s business district! They launched on 21 May 2015 to much fanfare and with a celebrity appearance by Kim Ji-won who acted in the Korean hit series The Heirs. Twins is not your ordinary […]

Nakhon Kitchen is a famous chain selling authentic Thai cuisine in Singapore. It is a big success with long queues at their branches almost everyday. They have branches all over Singapore, including Hougang, Ang Mo Kio, Holland Village, Yishun, Pasir Panjang, and until recently, Bedok. The owners of the previous, massively […]

Masizzim 마시찜 is a famous Korean restaurant with outlets all over Korea specialising in beef and pork stews. They have since expanded internationally and they have opened their first Singapore branch at 313 Somerset on 24 September 2015! This is a brand new hot Korean restaurant in Singapore and it has […]

The Au Petit Salut French restaurant is housed in a glorious building by itself in the iconic Dempsey area. Judging by the setup, the property there has to be worth tens of millions of dollars and the parking is exclusively for patrons. One wonders how much rent the owners of […]

This is the queue outside White Restaurant (also known as You Huak Restaurant 友发餐室 yǒu fā cān shì) at Sembawang on Monday night at 8pm. Yes it is very long, even approaching an off-peak timing on a weekday night. This is a real testament to the popularity of the establishment when […]

Which stall has the best chicken rice in Singapore? Listing the famous chicken rice stalls in Singapore, we have Tian Tian, Wee Nam Kee, Hua Kee and Five Star, amongst many others. Each famous chicken rice stall has its own unique strengths. Yes, if you try them all, you will find that […]

I love Italian pasta. Cream-based pasta, in particular the spaghetti carbonara, is one of my all-time favourite foods. I started off eating spaghetti bolognese at Jack’s Place when I was kid (wasn’t the nicest). My life was changed forever during my teenage years when a nondescript bar in Siglap had […]

There are two main types of bak kut teh in the region. One is the spicy peppery Teochew bak kut teh found in Singapore, and the other is the herbal bak kut teh more commonly found in Malaysia. There is the super famous bak kut teh in Malaysia’s Port Klang […]

Singapore is a culinary paradise. The hallmark of a city with very high gastronomic standards is the presence of multiple French restaurants of very high standards. The Black Sheep Cafe is one of those delicious French restaurants. We visited The Black Sheep Cafe on Christmas Day and we had the opportunity to try […]

Nangfa Thai Kitchen (formerly Nahm Thai Kitchen) is one of the newest names around in the Singaporean Thai cuisine scene. They are in the same spot as the previously famous Nakhon Kitchen (Bedok branch), with the same boss, the same staff and the same cook. For undisclosed reasons they have […]